The method to Joe Biden's 'malarkey'

During Thursday night’s vice presidential debate, Vice President Joe Biden told Rep. Paul Ryan, “With all due respect, that’s a bunch of malarkey,” as the two discussed Libya. (He later employed the term a second time.)

The word, according to Dictionary.com, means “speech or writing designed to obscure, mislead, or impress,” and it’s hardly the first time that Biden’s employed the word.

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April 27, 2009: “And you may remember we were told, Mr. Mayor, that that wasn’t likely to get done. But they didn’t know we had Dick Durbin. They didn’t know we — seriously, they did not know. And I think sometimes in your own city, your own state, you go somewhat unappreciated because they know you as Dick, and you’re here all the time and it’s standing out. The fact of the matter is, Dick, this act would not have passed without your leadership. And that’s not malarkey.”

May 11, 2009: “So, folks, I’m not giving you the usual malarkey that everyone of you are going to change the world, that everyone of you are going to become the Nobel laureates and the presidents and the corporate heads and the leaders of great organizations.”

Sept. 23, 2009: “Well, what I heard was a lot of questions relating to the myths they’ve heard about, you know, everything from, they’re gonna limit our access to our doctors, we’re gonna have to wait in line now. You know, a range of things that have been — they’ve been fed through the media and the disinformation that’s out there. My mom won’t move to Washington. She likes my house where it is in Wilmington. And she won’t come to Washington. About three, four weekends ago, I walk in, give her a kiss. She said, ‘Joey, what about these death panels?’ And I said, ‘Mom, I’m trying to kill you.’ She said, ‘I’m serious, Joey, what about these death panels?’ I said, ‘Mom, it’s hokum. It’s a bunch of malarkey.’”

Dec. 7, 2009: “Look, I know the arguments against government acting to protect your health care. I know what opponents have said. I’ve heard it before and so have you. Well, we’re hearing the same overheated rhetoric again. We’re dealing with the same scare tactics and the same malarkey — rationing, threats that seniors won’t get care, seniors will ‘die sooner.’ Come on. Enough of the scare tactics. It is time to set the record straight.”

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney even gotten in the action in March: “It is the — an election year show is to go out and promise that if only you are elected or only your plan was passed, that suddenly the price of gas would drop, which is malarkey — and you know it, I know it, everybody in this rooms knows it. Everybody who utters those words knows it.”

Readers' Comments (6)

This "debate" was the most bizarre thing I have ever seen. Biden was unhinged with the laughing, smirking, sneering, waving his arms, rolling his eyes and incessant uncontrollable interrupting. He was worse than a 4 year old on Mountain Dew.

Biden was truthful, articulate and humorous -- he utterly crushed Ryan. He cited facts and reasoned logically. Ryan merely robotically recited propaganda talking points, while looking smug and complacent. He utterly failed to answer the questions seeking specifics about the Ryan and Romney tax plan, and why their arithmetic does not add up. His attempts at evasion to hide away from the question totally failed to deceive me.

Biden, by contrast, made it very clear how the Obama administration has worked for ordinary Americans, how the Republicans in Congress have obstructed that, and how Romney and Ryan are working against the interests of most Americans.

Last but not least -- the debate highlighted the irresponsible war-mongering by Romney and Ryan, making it clear that they are itching to launch a war with Iran and maybe put American troops in Syria, too -- which would be another multi-trilion dollar disaster like George Bush's ruinous war in Iraq.

"Cheetosareus" evidently wasn't watching the same debate as me. I was watching the debate between Joe Biden and Lyin' Ryan. Looks like the one you were watching was some different event -- maybe on the Panet Kolob (check it out).

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